Ap Midterm Flashcards

11347278361	Behaviorism	Observal Actions	0
11347282301	Little Albert	Teaching kids how to be afraid of certain things	1
11347294060	Humanistic Psychology	Saying that you are capable of doing great things	2
11347300436	Abraham Maslow	founder of humanistic psychology	3
11347321575	Cognitive Psychology	Study of how we think	4
11347326862	Nature vs. Nurture	name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior	5
11347332472	BioPsychoSocial	Combining/connecting different levels of analysis	6
11347372422	Evolutionary Psychology	Act/behave to secuss	7
11347479409	Psychodynamic	unconscious motives	8
11347485970	Critical Thinking	Blindly accepting ideas/thinking beyond thinking	9
11347507744	Hindsight bias	Saying that you knew this all along after it occurs	10
11347514385	Confirmation Bias	You already believe this/Confirms your reason	11
11347528135	Overconfidence	the tendency to be more confident than correct	12
11347539586	false consensus effect	the tendency to overestimate the extent that others share our beliefs & behaviors	13
11347556349	operational definition	Step by step written out on how you do it	14
11347572365	Participant Bias	People apart of a experiment may act different because they are being watched	15
11347602061	Hawthrone Experiment	Did study's on women in factories and they thought they were working better cause they were bribed but really casue they were being watched	16
11347636900	Independent Variable	variable that YOU change	17
11347644603	Dependent Variable	Variable that is changed by the independent variable	18
11347660377	Cofounding Variable	variable that affects the variables being studied--MESSES UP the DATA	19
11347692898	Case Study	when 1 person is studied in depth, but looking for universal ideas and principles	20
11347708150	Population	whole group that would be studied or described	21
11347717041	naturalistic observation	observing and recording behavior that occurs naturally	22
11347724622	longitudional study	Study done over a long period of time	23
11347735704	cross-sectional study	Different groups compared at the same age or stage of development	24
11347775564	Positive Correlation	A correlation where as one variable increases, the other also increases	25
11347779949	Negative Correlation	as one variable decreases, the other decreases	26
11347789419	Illusory Correlation	The perception that a relationship exists when there are none	27
11347796405	double-blind procedure	experimental procedure in which both the researcher & participants are ignorant	28
11347805952	Placebo Effect	a nonactive substance or treatment	29
11347815859	Control Group	The group that doesn't receive the treatment	30
11347841810	Mean	Average	31
11347841837	Meidan	Middle number	32
11347859187	Mode	Most often	33
11347864110	Range	Highest-lowest	34
11347869790	Biological Psychologist	roots and the results of our behaviors	35
11347909771	Dendrite	receive messages and send impulses	36
11347912824	Axon	the extension of the neuron	37
11347919835	mylein sheath	fatty substance that covers the axon	38
11347927834	Neurotransmitter	Chemical messengers that travel across the synapse	39
11347934789	Dopamine	Influences movement, learning, attention, & emotion	40
11347948831	Acetylcholine	triggers muscle contraction & affects learning & memory	41
11347957205	Serotonin	hunger & sleep, arousal & mood	42
11347965940	Melatonin		43
11347979627	Endorphines	Pain and pleasure in the pituitary gland	44
11347990747	Norepinephrine	Helps control alertness & arousal	45
11347996279	Central Nervous System		46
11348004960	peripheral nervous system	All the nerves that feed into & branch out from the brain and spinal cord	47
11348016496	Sensory Division	travel from sensory organs and body tissues to the CNS, brain, & spinal cord	48
11348030885	Motor Cortex	outward traveling neurons that carry messages to muscles and glands	49
11348039123	Somatic Nervous System	Controls Voluntary movements	50
11348053655	autonimic nervous system	Control Autonomic functions	51
11348325242	parasympathetic nervous system	the part of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body	52
11348334439	sympethetic nervous system	Arouses the body when threats are perceived "Flight or Fight" Part of the autonomic nervous system	53
11348351248	Reflexes	the automatic response to stimuli	54
11348358787	Neural Networks	many neurons in a section of the brain in an area the size of a grain of sand	55
11348364619	hormones	chemical messengers produced by the endocrine system	56
11348370916	Adrenal Glands	releases adrenaline	57
11348374789	pituitary gland	Growth, pregnancy, & with the hypothalamus controls hunger	58
11348384888	Lesion	Brain damage	59
11348390285	Medulla	Controls heartbeat & breathing	60
11348401894	Reticular formation	regulates arousal, sleep, awareness, connects to the cerebral cortex	61
11348411088	Cerebellum	Balance and coordination	62
11348414344	Thalamus	Relay center (switchboard)	63
11348430951	Hypothalamus	brain region controlling the pituitary gland	64
11348435283	Amygdala	Two bean sized neural clusters, flight or fight, fear and emotions	65
11348446948	Hippocapus	Process new information and memories	66
11348460025	Frontal Lobe	Makes plans and judgements	67
11348468307	Temporal	(above ears) Hearing	68
11348472920	Parietal Lobe	(top) Touch and body movement	69
11348477834	occipital lobe	(back) controls sight	70
11348484368	Phineas Gage	Worker that had his frontal lobe from limbic system. Started the study of the brain	71
11348511115	Association Area	it is dedicated to associating sensory memory inputs with stored memory	72
11348522093	Brocas Area	Has a hard time with speech production	73
11348531694	aphasia	impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere	74
11348534709	Plasticity	Brain ability to change throughout childhood and when a injury occurs the brain needs to make neural connections	75
11348550694	corpous callosum	Connecting the two hemispheres of the brain and carry message back and fourth	76
11348563188	Behavior genetics	the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior	77
11348581843	Imprinting	certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life	78
11348586490	Identical Twins		79
11348610645	Environment	is every non-genetic factor	80
11348623200	temperament	a person's characteristic emotional behavior	81
11348627561	Heritability	The percentage of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes	82